
Using Clip Studio Paint for frames, cartoons and text (which I then traced with the ‘textured pen’ that I used for the cartoons).

Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
Using Clip Studio Paint for frames, cartoons and text (which I then traced with the ‘textured pen’ that I used for the cartoons).
These characters are the Vladimir and Estragon of nursery rhyme mice, so a dim and glowering background suits the piece, and fits in with the ‘lost in the Scottish Borders’ setting.
Some of my Night before Christmas mice have been drafted in for a comic strip version of the nursery rhyme How many miles to Babylon?
Although first published in 1801, it’s possible that the rhyme originated in the 1600s as a Scottish Border folksong.
Scottish Borders is the setting I’m going for.